C-Span circa 3:45 AM April 26 .... I was checking the coverage of the aftermath of the shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on various "News" channels and had planned to stay a few minutes with C-Span. Here's what happened...
Two moderators -- or it may have been one moderator and the other an interviewee who was at the dinner -- were seeking reaction responses from viewers. It was a Call-in "block" with a drop down window that covered a large portion of the TV screen. C-Span had set up three different (800) phone numbers for incoming calls:
one for Republicans
one for Democrats
and one for all Others
I asked myself why differentiate? Are we not all Americans concerned about yet another act of violence? Can we not unite in response to this -- against this violence? Once again an obviously left leaning commentator was trying to fit everyone into separate neat little boxes. I am so tired of that.
When asked by a caller if the C-Span moderator(s) felt that the media was in any way responsible for contributing to the atmosphere of conflict and rage leading to violence in our United States of America -- there was an immediate and blatant refusal to answer -- instead -- the one moderator immediately turned the question back on the caller saying that obviously the caller had an opinion on the matter implying that the caller thought the media was guilty of doing just that... thus throwing up lines of division once again. It was a total unwillingness to even discuss a possibility that might lead to an improvement of a bad situation.
I turned off the TV. I had had enough. Sometimes it is hard not to just give-up hope that our wonderful country might find a way to unify. Hatred and intolerance are real. Once again -- wish I had a magic wand to make things better for all Americans. The key word in that sentence is all. What's it going to take?
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